Papers of Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro, c1895-1960, Professor of Practice of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1913-1936

Manuscripts from the Monro Collection relating to printed editions of the works of Sir Thomas Browne

Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro was educated at Arbroath High School then went to the University of Glasgow, where he obtained his Master of Arts degree. After qualifying he studied in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. He was Emeritus Regius Professor of Practice of Medicine, at the University of Glasgow from 1913-1936. He held the positions of Honorary Fellow and Executive President in many organizations including: Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland and the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow. He was also a member of the British Medical Association and of the Executive Committee for the Orphan Homes of Scotland and Colony of Epileptics. Monro held the offices of Pathologist, Victoria Infirmary; Examiner in Pathology, Glasgow University; Examiner in Medicine at the universities of Dublin, Durham and St. Andrews; Physician and Clinical Lecturer, Glasgow Royal Infirmary; manager of Glasgow Royal Infirmary; Director, Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women’s Hospital; professor of Medicine and Dean of the Medical Faculty, St. Mungo's College; Examiner for the Fellowship and for the License of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; editor for the Glasgow Medical Journal; President of the Scottish Western Asylums Research Institute; Senior Physician, Western Infirmary, Glasgow; President of Medial and Dental Defence Union of Scotland, Ltd.; Governor, Royal Technical College, Glasgow; Chairman of Glasgow Workmen’s Dwellings Co. Ltd.; and was a Major in Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.). Monro’s publications include: History of the Chronic Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System (1895), Raynaud’s Disease (1899), Manual of Medicine, 5th edition (1925), The Physician as Man of Letters, Science and Action (1933), An Unpublished Letter of Sir Thomas Browne (1921), and The Early Editions of Sir Thomas Browne (1923).

Source: Who Was Who, Vol. V, 1951-1960ed. 1961.

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Bequeast : Thomas K Monro : Dec 1958 : ACCN 2553

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